Coleen replied: "I can't persuade her not to do it. It's her life. Nothing can make you more beautiful than the person you are already."

Maureen, who is currently starring in Menopause : The Musical said her role was "spookily accurate" as she plays a fading soap star desperate for a facelift.

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Speaking of her decision to have surgery, Maureen said: "Somehow when we were working all together as children I got landed with the term ‘the pretty one’.

"The older you get, possibly for someone who was tagged with that, it’s harder for them to accept getting old because you count on your looks a little bit too much possibly, you feel you have to live up to that, you feel that’s all you are as well.

"So you think, ‘Oh I’m pretty but I’ve got no talent, or no personality’."

But Coleen and the rest of the Loose Women panel couldn't understand why beautiful Maureen thinks she needs a facelift.

Coleen said: “I can’t bear the thoughts of her being in pain, I can’t bear the thoughts of anything going wrong in surgery, I just can’t handle anything else happening to anymore of my sisters, it gives me a lump in my throat at the thought of it.”

She added: “I think the thing for me, I’ll always be proud of you - if you have a facelift or don’t have a facelift, I’ll always be proud of you - and there’s no denying you’ll look fabulous. I’ll be sitting her saying you look fabulous.

"Here’s my issues: everyone I meet says ‘Your sister Maureen is so gorgeous!’ I tell them your age [63] and I go, ‘She’s had no work done’. They say, ‘She must have’ and I say ‘No’. Now, I’ll say, ‘Yeah, she’s had a facelift’. It upsets me a little bit."